Synopsis
Animated radio waves dissolving into main title: “Progress Parade” (good) Title: Fishing on Dry Land Pan around desert landscape to oil rig, pan up drilling rig drill shaft rotating, then hanging up and stopping Animation of drill pipe broken off next to drill pit, deeply underground oil workers hoisting up 10,000 feet of drill pipe, disconnecting it men driving up to work site in 1950s cars the “fisherman” in action Roughnecks attaching “fishing tool” to drill pipe, lowering it into hole “fisherman” feeling his way into hole 2 miles deep Animation of fishing tool grasping onto lost bit fish caught, drill revealed, everyone congratulates him and smiles Title: Baby Demands Comfort baby in bassinet crying mother picking up baby in her arms, holding infant bottle of “Citadel Baby Oil” mother rubbing baby oil all over child Pan from beaker marked CRUDE to one marked BABY OIL refinery huge refineries and equipment Mother puts baby back in bassinet Title: Bottle of Magic liquid boiling on ice, producing a burning gas (LP Gas) frying pan with 2 eggs cooking woman’s hand washing dishes in sink Many chickens in chicken house clustering around gas burner Man operating forklift in warehouse Man operating metal heat-treatment machine railroad switches in the show restaurant kitchen, chef cooking steak Oil delivery man delivering LP gas to a home from his truck into home gas tank Little boy looks on Title: Wearing Two Hats gas station man opening hood service at Citadel service station…
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- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0318_Progress_Parade_19_39_28_00
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Swathe your baby and your oysters! · Spuzz · 2017-06-29
Every industry has it's own Newsreel it seems, Chevrolet has it's news leader, the steel companies have a couple on here I know, and now the oil companies jump in with their own.. From the Outer Limits title logo we go.. Fishing On Dry Land features oil rig specialists who mainly get broken drill bits out of the hole. Fairly interesting piece, with some over the top acting. Baby Demands Comfort is all about the manufacture of Baby Oil. It is said that Mothers preferred just using baby oil instead of an infant's first bath! This is scary, and we actually SEE a mother just overdosing her kid…
★★★ · Institutional TV · Yowp · 2020-09-06
Here's another 15-minute institutional programme (like "Industry on Parade") sent free-of-charge to any TV station wanting to run it. Perfect for Saturday or Sunday afternoon fill in 1960. The American Petroleum Institute paid for it with a credit at the end. It's done in a newsreel style, with stock music. The episode includes a comedy middle routine set in a gas station. Oh, and somehow, how the oil industry helps us in unexpected ways is slipped into the body of the show. Very slick production. The narrator is anonymous. The animated opening and ending are cute.